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GPA of 3.3 in all undergraduate work at the University by the time of graduation. Minor Program Bachelor of Arts (BA) The Department of East Asian and Cultures offers an The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures offers an undergraduate minor in Japanese Language. To declare the minor, undergraduate major in Japanese Language. The course of study is please visit 3413 Dwinelle Hall. designed to train students in the humanistic investigation of major East Asian traditions, through a curriculum that centers the acquisition Other Majors and Minors Offered by of the modern and classical forms of the language, the informed and engaged of a wide variety of East Asian texts in their historical the Department of East Asian Languages and and cultural contexts, and the development of effective writing skills Cultures and critical thinking. Students are introduced to the vast and variegated (http://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/degree- literary, artistic, philosophical, and cultural traditions of and their programs/chinese-language/) (Major and Minor) transformations in modernity. Course offerings situate the study of East East Asian Religion, Thought, and Culture (http://guide.berkeley.edu/ Asia in a global context and expose students to a variety of disciplinary undergraduate/degree-programs/east-asian-religion-thought-culture/) and comparative approaches. (Major only) (http://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/degree- The major provides training in speaking, reading, and writing the relevant programs/korean-language/) (Minor only) modern languages as well as a basic familiarity with one or more of the Tibetan (http://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/degree-programs/ language's earlier forms. Students complete the major by selecting from tibetan/) (Minor only) a broad range of courses in literature, popular culture, philosophy, and linguistics both in translation and in the original languages. In addition to the University, campus, and college requirements, listed on the College Requirements tab, students must fulfill the below Students who major in the program have a variety of backgrounds requirements specific to their major program. and many students are double majors in a broad spectrum of other departments and programs including: anthropology, applied mathematics, architecture, art history, art practice, Asian studies, business, General Guidelines comparative literature, computer science, economics, English, linguistics, 1. All courses taken to fulfill the major requirements below must be mass communications, molecular and cell biology, political economy, taken for graded credit, other than courses listed which are offered on political science, psychology, rhetoric, and theater arts. a Pass/No Pass basis only. Other exceptions to this requirement are noted as applicable. Declaring the Major 2. No more than one upper division course may be used to Students interested in majoring in the program should consult with the simultaneously fulfill requirements for a student's major and minor staff undergraduate advisor regarding major requirements, transfer programs, with the exception of minors offered outside of the College credits, and other academic concerns. Students are admitted to the of Letters & Science. major only after successful completion (with a grade of C or higher) of 3. A minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 must be maintained the prerequisites to the major; for information regarding the prerequisites, in both upper and lower division courses used to fulfill the major please see the Major Requirements tab on this page. Students are requirements. advised to begin preparation for the major as soon as possible in order to satisfy University, college, and department requirements. All students For information regarding residence requirements and unit requirements, should be familiar with the college requirements for graduation with a please see the College Requirements tab. Bachelor of Arts degree, as explained in the "Earning Your Degree," a Please that students with previous language experience will be bulletin available from the College of Letters & Science, 206 Evans Hall. required to take the online placement exam. Honors Program Lower Division Prerequisites A senior undergraduate student who has completed 12 units of upper 1A Elementary Japanese (or equivalent) 1 5 division language courses in the department, and who has a grade point 1 average (GPA) of 3.5 in those courses and an overall GPA of 3.0 may JAPAN 1B Elementary Japanese (or equivalent) 5 apply for admission to the honors program. If accepted, the student JAPAN 7A Introduction to Premodern 4 2 will enroll in an honors course (any H195 course) for two consecutive and Culture semesters leading to the completion of an honors thesis, which must be or JAPAN 7B Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature and submitted at least two weeks before the end of the semester in which the Culture student expects to graduate. While enrolled in the honors program, the student will undertake independent advanced study under the guidance Lower Division Major Requirements of the student's honors thesis adviser. Upon completion of the program, Minimum three courses, 12 units a faculty committee will determine the degree of honors to be awarded (honors, high honors, highest honors), taking into consideration both the JAPAN 10A Intermediate Japanese (or equivalent) 1 5 quality of the thesis and overall performance in the program. Honors will JAPAN 10B Intermediate Japanese (or equivalent) 1 5 not be granted to a student who does not achieve a minimum cumulative or JAPAN 10X Intermediate Japanese for Heritage Learners 2 Japanese Language

Select one of the following (whichever one not selected as a 4. A minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 is required for courses prerequisite) used to fulfill the minor requirements. JAPAN 7A Introduction to Premodern Japanese Literature 5. Courses used to fulfill the minor requirements may be applied toward and Culture [4] the Seven-Course Breadth requirement, for Letters & Science or JAPAN 7BIntroduction to Modern Japanese Literature and students. Culture 6. No more than one upper division course may be used to simultaneously fulfill requirements for a student's major and minor Upper Division Major Requirements programs. Minimum eight courses, 32 units 7. All minor requirements must be completed prior to the last day of finals during the semester in which you plan to graduate. If you JAPAN 100A Advanced Japanese (or equivalent) 1 5 cannot finish all courses required for the minor by that time, please JAPAN 100B Advanced Japanese (or equivalent) 1 5 see a College of Letters & Science adviser. or JAPAN 100XAdvanced Japanese for Heritage Learners 8. All minor requirements must be completed within the unit ceiling. (For further information regarding the unit ceiling, please see the College JAPAN 120 Introduction to 4 Requirements tab.) Select one classical Japanese literature courses numbered JAPAN 130-149 Requirements JAPAN 130 Classical [4] Language Training 1 JAPAN 132 Premodern Japanese Diary (Nikki) Literature [4] JAPAN 1A Elementary Japanese (or equivalent) 5 JAPAN 140 Heian Prose [4] JAPAN 1B Elementary Japanese (or equivalent) 5 JAPAN C141 Introductory in Japanese Buddhist Texts JAPAN 10A Intermediate Japanese (or equivalent) 5 [4] JAPAN 10B Intermediate Japanese (or equivalent) 5 JAPAN 144 Literature [4] or JAPAN 10X Intermediate Japanese for Heritage Learners JAPAN 146 Japanese Historical Documents [4] Upper Division (five courses, minimum 20 units) 2,3 Select one modern Japanese literature course from courses numbered JAPAN 150-159 Select three upper division Japanese courses JAPAN 155 Modern Japanese Literature [4] JAPAN 100A Advanced Japanese [5] JAPAN 159 Contemporary Japanese Literature [4] JAPAN 100B Advanced Japanese [5] Select one EA LANG upper division course, from courses numbered 4 or JAPAN 100XAdvanced Japanese for Heritage Learners EALANG 100-189 JAPAN 101 Fourth-Year Readings: Social Sciences [4] Select two additional upper division EALC electives (Chinese, 8 JAPAN 102 Fourth-Year Readings: Japanese Culture [4] Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Tibetan, or East Asian Languages JAPAN 103 Fourth-Year Readings: Japanese Literature [4] and Cultures) in consultation with the adviser JAPAN 104 Fourth-Year Readings: Japanese History [4] 1 JAPAN 111 Fifth-Year Readings: Reading and Analysis of Please note that students with previous language experience will Advanced Japanese Texts [4] be required to take a placement exam. Students who place out of language courses or into the heritage track will be required to take JAPAN 112 Fifth-Year Readings: Japanese for Research and additional adviser-approved literature or culture courses offered by Professional Use [4] the department in order to meet the above unit requirements. JAPAN C115 and its Culture in Japan [4] 2 Introduction to Japanese Literature must be taken at UC Berkeley. JAPAN 116 Introduction to the Religions of Japan [4] JAPAN 120 Introduction to Classical Japanese [4] Students who have a strong interest in an area of study outside their JAPAN 130 Classical Japanese Poetry [4] major often decide to complete a minor program. These programs JAPAN 132 Premodern Japanese Diary (Nikki) Literature [4] have set requirements and are noted officially on the transcript in the memoranda section, but they are not noted on diplomas. JAPAN 140 Heian Prose [4] JAPAN C141 Introductory Readings in Japanese Buddhist Texts General Guidelines [4] 1. All minors must be declared no later than one semester before a JAPAN 144 Edo Literature [4] student's Expected Graduation Term (EGT). If the semester before JAPAN 146 Japanese Historical Documents [4] EGT is fall or spring, the deadline is the last day of RRR week. If JAPAN 155 Modern Japanese Literature [4] the semester before EGT is summer, the deadline is the final JAPAN 159 Contemporary Japanese Literature [4] of Summer Sessions. To declare a minor, contact the department JAPAN 160 Introduction to Japanese Linguistics: Grammar [4] advisor for information on requirements, and the declaration process. JAPAN 161 Introduction to Japanese Linguistics: Usage [4] 2. All courses taken to fulfill the minor requirements below must be taken for graded credit. JAPAN 163 Translation: Theory and Practice [4] 3. A minimum of three of the upper division courses taken to fulfill the JAPAN 170 Classical Japanese Literature in Translation [4] minor requirements must be completed at UC Berkeley. JAPAN 173 Modern Japanese Literature in Translation [4] JAPAN C176 Archaeology and Japanese Identities [4] Japanese Language 3

JAPAN 177 Urami: Rancor and Revenge in Japanese College of Letters & Science Essential Skills Literature [4] Requirements JAPAN 180 Ghosts and the Modern Literary Imagination [4] Quantitative Reasoning (http://guide.berkeley.edu/ JAPAN 181 Reframing Disasters: Fukushima, Before and After undergraduate/colleges-schools/letters-science/quantitative- [4] reasoning-requirement/) JAPAN 185 Introduction to Japanese Cinema [4] The Quantitative Reasoning requirement is designed to ensure that JAPAN 188 Japanese Visual Culture: Introduction to [4] students graduate with basic understanding and competency in math, JAPAN 189 Topics in Japanese Film [4] statistics, or computer science. The requirement may be satisfied by Select two additional electives from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, 8 exam or by taking an approved course. Mongolian, Tibetan, and East Asian Languages and Cultures courses 4 (http://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/ colleges-schools/letters-science/foreign-language-requirement/) 1 Students with previous language experience will be required to take a The Foreign Language requirement may be satisfied by demonstrating placement exam. proficiency in reading comprehension, writing, and conversation in a 2 All courses require advisor approval. foreign language equivalent to the second semester college level, either 3 One 7A or 7B course from the EALC department listings may be by passing an exam or by completing approved course work. substituted for one of the five upper division courses. 4 Reading and Composition (http://guide.berkeley.edu/ EAP course(s) may be used to satisfy one of the electives; however, undergraduate/colleges-schools/letters-science/reading- not all EAP courses will be approved for the minor. Please check with composition-requirement/) the adviser in advance. In order to provide a solid foundation in reading, writing, and critical Undergraduate students must fulfill the following requirements in addition thinking the College requires two semesters of lower division work in to those required by their major program. composition in sequence. Students must complete parts A & B reading and composition courses by the end of their second semester and a For detailed lists of courses that fulfill college requirements, please second-level course by the end of their fourth semester. review the College of Letters & Sciences (http://guide.berkeley.edu/ undergraduate/colleges-schools/letters-science/) page in this Guide. For College of Letters & Science 7 Course College advising appointments, please visit the &S Advising (https:// Breadth Requirements lsadvising.berkeley.edu/home/) Pages. 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Note: Courses taken through UC Extension do not count toward JAPAN 1 Intensive Elementary Japanese 10 residence. Units Senior Residence Requirement Terms offered: Summer 2019 10 Week Session, Summer 2018 10 Week Session, Summer 2017 10 Week Session After you become a senior (with 90 semester units earned toward your This course is the equivalent of Japan 1A and Japan 1B offered in the BA degree), you must complete at least 24 of the remaining 30 units in regular academic year. residence in at least two semesters. To count as residence, a semester Intensive Elementary Japanese: Read More [+] must consist of at least 6 passed units. Intercampus Visitor, EAP, and UC Rules & Requirements Berkeley- Program (UCDC) units are excluded. Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Japan 1 after You may use a Berkeley Summer Session to satisfy one semester of the taking Japan 1B. Senior Residence requirement, provided that you successfully complete 6 units of course work in the Summer Session and that you have been Hours & Format enrolled previously in the college. Summer: 10 weeks - 15 hours of lecture per week Modified Senior Residence Requirement Participants in the UC Education Abroad Program (EAP), Berkeley Additional Details Summer Abroad, or the UC Berkeley Washington Program (UCDC) Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate may meet a Modified Senior Residence requirement by completing 24 (excluding EAP) of their final 60 semester units in residence. At least 12 Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. of these 24 units must be completed after you have completed 90 units. Intensive Elementary Japanese: Read Less [-] Upper Division Residence Requirement You must complete in residence a minimum of 18 units of upper JAPAN 1A Elementary Japanese 5 Units division courses (excluding UCEAP units), 12 of which must satisfy the Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week requirements for your major. Session Japanese 1A is designed to develop basic Japanese language skills: Major Maps help undergraduate students discover academic, co- listening, speaking, reading and writing. Students will learn the Japanese curricular, and discovery opportunities at UC Berkeley based on intended : , and approximately 150 . At the major or field of interest. Developed by the Division of Undergraduate end of the course, students should be able to greet, invite, compare, and Education in collaboration with academic departments, these experience describe persons and things, activities, intensions, ability, experience, maps will help you: purposes, reasons, and wishes. Grades will be determined on the basis of attendance, quiz scores, homework and class participation. • Explore your major and gain a better understanding of your field of Elementary Japanese: Read More [+] study Rules & Requirements • Connect with people and programs that inspire and sustain your Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for JAPAN 1A after creativity, drive, curiosity and success completing JAPAN 1. • Discover opportunities for independent inquiry, enterprise, and Hours & Format creative expression Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week • Engage locally and globally to broaden your perspectives and change the world Summer: 6 weeks - 12 hours of lecture per week

• Reflect on your academic career and prepare for life after Berkeley Additional Details

Use the major map below as a guide to planning your undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate journey and designing your own unique Berkeley experience. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. View the Japanese Language Major Map PDF. (https:// vcue.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/japanese_language.pdf) Elementary Japanese: Read Less [-] Japanese Language Expand all course descriptions [+]Collapse all course descriptions [-] Japanese Language 5

JAPAN 1AL Supplementary Work in JAPAN 1B Elementary Japanese 5 Units Listening-Elementary 1 Unit Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010 Session Designed to supplement Japan 1A in order to facilitate students' listening Japanese 1B is designed to develop basic skills acquired in Japanese proficiency. Japan 1AL will cover a variety of listening strategies. 1A further. Students will learn approximately 150 new kanji. At the end Supplementary Work in Listening-Elementary: Read More [+] of the course students should be able to express regret, positive and Hours & Format negative requirements, chronological order of events, conditions, giving and receiving of objects and favors, and to ask and give advice. Grades Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture per week will be determined on the basis of attendance, quiz scores, homework and class participation. Additional Details Elementary Japanese: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Prerequisites: Japan 1A Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required. Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for JAPAN 1B after completing JAPAN 1. Supplementary Work in Listening-Elementary: Read Less [-] Hours & Format JAPAN 1AS Supplementary Work in Kanji 1 Unit Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010 Summer: 6 weeks - 12 hours of lecture per week This course designed to be taken concurrently with Japan 1A to help students improve overall kanji performance. The course will make the Additional Details kanji learning process easier by providing exercises and background information about the relationships between characters and how they Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate function. Supplementary Work in Kanji: Read More [+] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. Hours & Format Elementary Japanese: Read Less [-] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture per week JAPAN 1BL Supplementary Work in Additional Details Listening-Elementary 1 Unit Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008 Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Designed to supplement Japan 1B in order to facilitate students' listening Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final proficiency. Students will apply the strategies learned in Japan 1AL in exam not required. listening activities. Supplementary Work in Listening-Elementary: Read More [+] Supplementary Work in Kanji: Read Less [-] Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.

Supplementary Work in Listening-Elementary: Read Less [-] 6 Japanese Language

JAPAN 1BS Supplementary Work in Kanji 1 JAPAN 7B Introduction to Modern Japanese Unit Literature and Culture 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, This course designed to be taken concurrently with Japan 1B to help Spring 2021 students improve overall kanji performance. The course will make the An introduction to Japanese literature in translation in a two-semester kanji learning process easier by providing exercises and background sequence. 7B provides a survey of important works of 19th- and 20th- information about the relationships between characters and how they century Japanese fiction, poetry, and cultural criticism. The course will function. explore the manner in which writers responded to the challenges of Supplementary Work in Kanji: Read More [+] industrialization, internationalization, and war. Topics include the shifting Hours & Format notions of tradition and modernity, the impact of Westernization on the constructions of the self and gender, writers and the wartime state, Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture per week literature of the atomic bomb, and postmodern fantasies and aesthetics. All readings are in English translation. Techniques of critical reading and Additional Details writing will be introduced as an integral part of the course. Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature and Culture: Read More [+] Hours & Format Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week Supplementary Work in Kanji: Read Less [-] Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per JAPAN 7A Introduction to Premodern week

Japanese Literature and Culture 4 Units Additional Details Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2020 This course is an overview of Japanese literature and culture, 7th- Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate through 18th-centuries. 7A begins with Japan's early myth-history and its first poetry anthology, which show the transition from a preliterate, Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. communal society to a courtly culture. Noblewomen's diaries, poetry Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature and Culture: Read Less [-] anthologies, and selections from offer a window into that culture. We examine how oral culture and high literary art mix in JAPAN 10 Intensive Intermediate Japanese tales and explore representations of heroism in military chronicles and medieval drama. After considering the linked verse 10 Units of late medieval times, we read vernacular literature from the urban Terms offered: Summer 2019 10 Week Session, Summer 2018 10 Week culture of the . No previous course work in Japanese literature, Session, Summer 2017 10 Week Session history, or language is expected. This course is the equivalent of Japan 10A and Japan 10B offered in the Introduction to Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture: Read More regular academic year. [+] Intensive Intermediate Japanese: Read More [+] Hours & Format Rules & Requirements

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of Prerequisites: Japan 1 or Japan 1B discussion per week Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Japan 10 after Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per taking Japan 10B or Japan 10X. week Hours & Format Additional Details Summer: 10 weeks - 15 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Introduction to Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture: Read Less Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. [-] Intensive Intermediate Japanese: Read Less [-] Japanese Language 7

JAPAN 10A Intermediate Japanese 5 Units JAPAN 10AS Supplementary Work in Kanji - Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Intermediate 1 Unit Session Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010 The goal of this course is for the students to understand the language This supplementary course is designed for students who are concurrently and culture required to communicate effectively in Japanese. Some of enrolled in Japan 10A to acquire a better understanding of kanji writing the cultural aspects covered are; geography, speech style, technology, system and to improve overall kanji performance. sports, , and religion. Through the final project, students will learn Supplementary Work in Kanji - Intermediate: Read More [+] how to discuss social issues and their potential solutions. In order to Hours & Format achieve these goals, students will learn how to integrate the basic linguistics knowledge they acquired in J1, as well as study new structures Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture per week and . An increasing amount of reading and writing, including approximately 200 new kanji, will also be required. Additional Details Intermediate Japanese: Read More [+] Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Rules & Requirements Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final Prerequisites: Japan 1 or Japan 1B exam not required. Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for JAPAN 10A after Supplementary Work in Kanji - Intermediate: Read Less [-] completing JAPAN 10.

Hours & Format JAPAN 10B Intermediate Japanese 5 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week Session The goal of this course is for the students to understand the more Summer: 6 weeks - 12 hours of lecture per week advanced language and culture required to communicate effectively in Japanese. Some of the cultural aspects covered are; pop-culture, Additional Details traditional arts, education, convenient stores, , and history. Through Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate the final project, students will learn how to introduce their own cultures and their influences. In order to achieve these goals, students will learn Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. how to integrate the basic structures and vocabulary they acquired in the previous semesters, as well as study new linguistic expressions. Intermediate Japanese: Read Less [-] An increasing amount of more advanced reading and writing, including approximately 200 new kanji, will also be required. JAPAN 10AG Supplementary Work in Intermediate Japanese: Read More [+] Grammar - Intermediate 1 Unit Rules & Requirements Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010 This supplementary course is designed for students who are Prerequisites: Japan 10A concurrently enrolled in Japan 10A to enable their acquisition of a better Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for JAPAN 10B after understanding of in general and clause linkage in completing JAPAN 10. particular. Supplementary Work in Grammar - Intermediate: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture per week Summer: 6 weeks - 12 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

Supplementary Work in Grammar - Intermediate: Read Less [-] Intermediate Japanese: Read Less [-] 8 Japanese Language

JAPAN 10BG Supplementary Work in JAPAN 10RA Intermediate Reading in Grammar - Intermediate 1 Unit Japanese 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008 Terms offered: Fall 2019 This supplementary course is designed for students who are This course is intended to train students who wish to acquire reading concurrently enrolled in Japan 10B to enable their acquisition of a better fluency in the Japanese language in a short time period and therefore understanding of Japanese grammar in general and clause linkage in dispenses with all components not germane to that goal. Prior particular. knowledge of fundamental first-year grammar and vocabulary is required Supplementary Work in Grammar - Intermediate: Read More [+] as this course will start at the second-year level and run parallel Hours & Format with our full-language second-year courses, covering the same reading materials as used in J10A-B. The course will be conducted in English and Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture per week students’ comprehension will be examined and analyzed in terms of Japanese-to-English translation. By completion of J10RB, students will Additional Details be functional readers of Japanese for general purposes. Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Intermediate Reading in Japanese: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required. Prerequisites: Japanese 1B or equivalent

Supplementary Work in Grammar - Intermediate: Read Less [-] Hours & Format JAPAN 10BS Supplementary Work in Kanji- Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Intermediate 1 Unit Additional Details Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008 This supplementary course is designed for students who are concurrently Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate enrolled in Japan 10B to acquire a better understanding of kanji writing Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. system and to improve overall kanji performance. Supplementary Work in Kanji-Intermediate: Read More [+] Intermediate Reading in Japanese: Read Less [-] Hours & Format JAPAN 10RB Intermediate Reading in Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture per week Japanese 4 Units Additional Details Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020 This course is intended to train students who wish to acquire reading Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate fluency in the Japanese language in a short time period and therefore dispenses with all components not germane to that goal. Prior Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final knowledge of fundamental first-year grammar and vocabulary is required exam not required. as this course will start at the second-year level and run parallel Supplementary Work in Kanji-Intermediate: Read Less [-] with our full-language second-year courses, covering the same reading materials as used in J10A-B. The course will be conducted in English and students’ comprehension will be examined and analyzed in terms of Japanese-to-English translation. By completion of J10RB, students will be functional readers of Japanese for general purposes. Intermediate Reading in Japanese: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: J10RA or equivalent for J10RB

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

Intermediate Reading in Japanese: Read Less [-] Japanese Language 9

JAPAN 10X Intermediate Japanese for JAPAN 80 Japanese Culture 4 Units Heritage Learners 5 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Summer 2020 First 6 Week Session, Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2017, Fall 2016 Summer 2020 Second 6 Week Session This course is designed specifically for heritage learners who possess Introduction to Japanese culture from its origins to the present: high fluency in casual spoken Japanese but little reading and writing premodern historical, literary, artistic, and religious developments, abilities. It introduces formal speech styles, reinforces grammatical modern economic growth, and the nature of contemporary society, accuracy, and improves reading and writing competencies through education, and business. Class conducted in English. materials derived from various textual genres. Students will acquire the Japanese Culture: Read More [+] amounts of vocabulary, grammar, and kanji equivalent to those of Japan Hours & Format 10A and Japan 10B. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Intermediate Japanese for Heritage Learners: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor Additional Details

Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Japan 10X after Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate taking Japan 10 or Japan 10A. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Hours & Format Japanese Culture: Read Less [-] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week JAPAN 84 Sophomore Seminar 1 or 2 Units Additional Details Terms offered: Spring 2015 Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Sophomore seminars are small interactive courses offered by faculty members in departments all across the campus. Sophomore seminars Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. offer opportunity for close, regular intellectual contact between faculty members and students in the crucial second year. The topics vary from Intermediate Japanese for Heritage Learners: Read Less [-] department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 sophomores. JAPAN 24 Freshman Seminar 1 Unit Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+] Terms offered: Fall 2011, Spring 2010, Fall 2008 Rules & Requirements The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty Prerequisites: At discretion of instructor member in a small-seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. and semester to semester. Hours & Format Freshman Seminar: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Fall and/or spring: 5 weeks - 3-6 hours of seminar per week Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. 10 weeks - 1.5-3 hours of seminar per week Hours & Format 15 weeks - 1-2 hours of seminar per week

Fall and/or spring: Summer: 8 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week 6 weeks - 2.5-5 hours of seminar per week 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week 8 weeks - 2-4 hours of seminar per week

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Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required. instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.

Freshman Seminar: Read Less [-] Sophomore Seminar: Read Less [-] 10 Japanese Language

JAPAN 98 Directed Group Study for Lower JAPAN 100 Intensive Advanced Japanese 10 Division Students 1 - 4 Units Units Terms offered: Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Spring 2008 Terms offered: Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2015 10 Week Small group instruction in topics not covered by regularly scheduled Session, Summer 2014 10 Week Session courses. This course is the equivalent of Japan 100A and Japan 100B offered in Directed Group Study for Lower Division Students: Read More [+] the regular academic year. Rules & Requirements Intensive Advanced Japanese: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Lower division standing, 3.5 GPA Prerequisites: Japan 10 or Japan 10B Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog. Credit Restrictions: Student will receive no credit for Japan 100 after taking Japan 100B or Japan 100X. Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Hours & Format Summer: 10 weeks - 15 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week Additional Details

Summer: Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of directed group study per week 8 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of directed group study per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate JAPAN 100A Advanced Japanese 5 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final This course will develop further context-specific skills in speaking, exam not required. listening, reading and writing. It concentrates on students using acquired grammar and vocabulary with more confidence in order to express Directed Group Study for Lower Division Students: Read Less [-] functional meanings, while increasing overall linguistic competence. JAPAN 99 Independent Study for Lower Students will learn approximately 200 new Kanji. There will be a group or individual project. Course materials include the textbook supplemented by Division Students 1 - 4 Units newspapers, magazine articles, short stories, and video clips which will Terms offered: Spring 1997 provide insight into Japanese culture and society. Independent study in topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses. Advanced Japanese: Read More [+] Independent Study for Lower Division Students: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Japan 10 or Japan 10B Prerequisites: Lower division standing, 3.5 GPA Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Japan 100A after Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to taking Japan 100 or Japan 100X. Courses and Curricula section of this catalog. Hours & Format Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Advanced Japanese: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.

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JAPAN 100B Advanced Japanese 5 Units JAPAN 100X Advanced Japanese for Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2019 Heritage Learners 5 Units This course aims to develop further context-specific skills in speaking, Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018 listening, reading and writing. It concentrates on students using acquired This course helps heritage learners of Japanese who have completed grammar and vocabulary with more confidence in order to express 10X to develop further their linguistic and cultural competencies. More functional meanings, while increasing overall linguistic competence. sophisticated linguistic forms are introduced and reinforced while dealing Students will learn approximately 200 new Kanji. There will be a group or with various socio-cultural topics. Close reading knowledge and skills, individual project. Course materials include the textbook supplemented formal and informal registers, and different genres of Japanese reading by newspapers, magazine articles, short stories, essays, and video clips and writing are practiced. The materials covered are equivalent to those which will provide insight into Japanese culture and society. of 100A-100B. Advanced Japanese: Read More [+] Advanced Japanese for Heritage Learners: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Japan 100A Prerequisites: Japanese 10X

Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Japan 100B after Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Japan 100X after taking Japan 100 or Japan 100X. taking Japan 100B.

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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week

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Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

Advanced Japanese: Read Less [-] Advanced Japanese for Heritage Learners: Read Less [-] JAPAN 100S Japanese for Sinologists 4 Units JAPAN 101 Fourth-Year Readings: Social Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2017 Sciences 4 Units Students will be trained to read, analyze, and modern Japanese Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2017 scholarship on Chinese subjects. A major purpose of the course is to Students develop their reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills prepare students to take reading examinations in Japanese. The areas of further to think critically, to express their points of view, and to understand scholarship to be covered are: politics, popular culture, religion, sociology Japanese culture and society in depth The readings are mainly articles and history as well as areas suggested by students who are actively on current social issues from Japanese newspapers, magazines, and engaged in research projects. Two readings in selected areas will be professional books as sources of discussions. Students are required to assigned, one by the instructor and the second by a student participant. write short essays on topics related to the reading materials. Japanese for Sinologists: Read More [+] Fourth-Year Readings: Social Sciences: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Graduate standing; Japan 10B and Chinese 100B or Prerequisites: Japan 100, Japan 100B, or Japan 100X; or consent of equivalents instructor Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. Fourth-Year Readings: Social Sciences: Read Less [-] Japanese for Sinologists: Read Less [-] 12 Japanese Language

JAPAN 102 Fourth-Year Readings: Japanese JAPAN 104 Fourth-Year Readings: Japanese Culture 4 Units History 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2018 Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 This course provides students an opportunity to develop their reading, Students develop their reading, writing, speaking, and listening writing, speaking, and listening skills in order to express their opinions skills further while examining Japanese historical figures, events, in argumentative discourse. Students read and discuss a variety of background, stories, etc. Students read a variety of texts and watch Japanese texts to deepen their understanding of Japanese society and videos related to Japanese history as sources for discussions to deepen people and to improve their intercultural communicative competence. their understanding of Japanese society, culture, and people from Fourth-Year Readings: Japanese Culture: Read More [+] historical perspectives. Students conduct individual research on a topic in Rules & Requirements Japanese history, and write a short research paper. Fourth-Year Readings: Japanese History: Read More [+] Prerequisites: Japan 100, Japan 100B, or Japan 100X; or consent of Rules & Requirements instructor Prerequisites: Japanese 100, Japanese 100B, or Japanese 100X; or Hours & Format consent of instructor

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format

Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Additional Details

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate

Fourth-Year Readings: Japanese Culture: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.

JAPAN 103 Fourth-Year Readings: Japanese Fourth-Year Readings: Japanese History: Read Less [-] Literature 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2016, Fall 2015 JAPAN 105 Fourth-Year Japanese: Current This course provides students an opportunity to develop their reading, Issues in Japan 4 Units writing, speaking, and listening skills, thereby enabling them to express Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2019 their points of view and to engage in argumentative discourse. In addition In this course, students will practice various techniques to read articles in to Japanese literature, readings include academic essays and other Japanese on current issues in Japan, and they will learn about Japanese texts, which provide a variety of writing styles and serve as sources for conceptions of the world and how Japanese society functions. They may classroom discussion. Also, Japanese films are used for various activities want to compare what they have learned with similar issues in their own in order to broaden students’ cultural awareness and knowledge of countries to deepen their understanding of the issues and develop their Japanese society. critical thinking ability. They will also learn more advanced Japanese Fourth-Year Readings: Japanese Literature: Read More [+] grammar and increase their vocabulary. Rules & Requirements Fourth-Year Japanese: Current Issues in Japan: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Japan 100, Japan 100B, or Japan 100X; or consent of instructor Prerequisites: Japan 100, Japan 100B, or Japan 100X; or consent of instructor Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. Fourth-Year Readings: Japanese Literature: Read Less [-] Fourth-Year Japanese: Current Issues in Japan: Read Less [-] Japanese Language 13

JAPAN 111 Fifth-Year Readings: Reading and JAPAN C115 Buddhism and its Culture in Analysis of Advanced Japanese Texts 4 Units Japan 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012 Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2018, Spring 2017 This course is designed for students who have studied Japanese for This course provides a critical survey of prominent and other noteworthy at least four years (540 hours). It aims to develop further their reading, expressions of Buddhist thought and culture in Japanese history. The writing, speaking, and listening skills enabling them to utilize Japanese Japanese experience of Buddhist teachings, practices and institutions, as materials for research and job-related purposes, to present orally the well as aesthetic expressions in painting, sculpture, architecture, garden results of their researches, and/or to pursue college-level courses taught design, literature, and theatre will be examined against the backdrop of in Japanese. Although much of class time will be devoted to reading- and the transmission of all these forms of Buddhist culture from India to writing-oriented activities, students are expected to participate actively in to to Japan. Special attention will also be given to the of oral presentations, discussions, and debates in class. Buddhist and “native” Japanese sensibilities in theater (Noh, , and Fifth-Year Readings: Reading and Analysis of Advanced Japanese Texts: Bunraku) and popular art such as - prints and . Read More [+] Buddhism and its Culture in Japan: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Hours & Format

Prerequisites: Two courses chosen from Japanese 101, Japanese 102, Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of Japanese 103, or Japanese 104 discussion per week

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Hours & Format Additional Details

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate

Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Also listed as: BUDDSTD C115

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. Buddhism and its Culture in Japan: Read Less [-] Fifth-Year Readings: Reading and Analysis of Advanced Japanese Texts: JAPAN 116 Introduction to the Religions of Read Less [-] Japan 4 Units JAPAN 112 Fifth-Year Readings: Japanese Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2019 An introductory look at the culture, values, and history of religious for Research and Professional Use 4 Units traditions in Japan, covering the Japanese sense of the world physically Terms offered: Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013 and culturally, its native religious culture called , the imported This course is designed for students who have studied Japanese for continental traditions of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism, the arrival at least four years (540 hours). It aims to develop further their reading, and impact of Christianity in the 16th century and the New Religions of writing, speaking, and listening skills with special emphasis on essay and the 19th and 20th centuries. will be on how the internal structure research paper writing on topics relevant not only to the student’s interest of Buddhist and Confucian values were negotiated with long-established but also to the student's major or intended career. Part of this written views of mankind and society in Japan, how Japan has been changed work will become the material on which the student will give an end-of- by these foreign notions of the individual’s place in the world, particularly the-term oral presentation. Students are expected to fully prepare for and Buddhism, and why many see contemporary Japan as a post-religious dynamically participate in the discussions and debates that occur in class. society. Fifth-Year Readings: Japanese for Research and Professional Use: Read Introduction to the Religions of Japan: Read More [+] More [+] Hours & Format Rules & Requirements Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: Two courses chosen from Japanese 101, Japanese 102, Japanese 103, or Japanese 104 Additional Details

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate

Hours & Format Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Instructor: Blum

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Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

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JAPAN 120 Introduction to Classical JAPAN 132 Premodern Japanese Diary Japanese 4 Units (Nikki) Literature 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 Terms offered: Spring 2015, Spring 2011, Spring 2009 An introduction to classical Japanese (bungo), the premodern vernacular, The tradition of Japanese self-reflective literature, composed by both which was used as Japan's until well into the 20th men and women, is long and rich. Topics for this course include highly century and remains essential for a thorough grounding in Japanese personal memoirs by court women and poetic travel diaries. literature and culture. Premodern Japanese Diary (Nikki) Literature: Read More [+] Introduction to Classical Japanese: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Japanese 120 Prerequisites: Japanese 10 or Japanese 10B Hours & Format Hours & Format Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Additional Details Additional Details Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Premodern Japanese Diary (Nikki) Literature: Read Less [-] Introduction to Classical Japanese: Read Less [-] JAPAN 140 Heian Prose 4 Units JAPAN 130 Classical Japanese Poetry 4 Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2000, Spring 1999 Units The course focuses on select masterpieces from the Japanese Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 narrative tradition, including ’s The Tale of Genji (Genji An introduction to the critical analysis and translation of traditional monogatari) and Sei Shonagon’s (Makura no soshi). Japanese poetry, a genre that reaches from early declarative work Heian Prose: Read More [+] redolent of an even earlier oral tradition to medieval and Early Modern Rules & Requirements verses evoking exquisitely differentiated emotional states via complex Prerequisites: Japanese 120 rhetoric and literary allusion. Topics may include examples of Japan's earliest poetry in Man'yoshu, Heian courtly verse in Kokinshu, lines from Hours & Format Shinkokinshu with its medieval mystery and depth, linked verse (), and the haikai of Basho and his circle. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Classical Japanese Poetry: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Additional Details

Prerequisites: Japanese 120 Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate

Hours & Format Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Heian Prose: Read Less [-]

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Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Classical Japanese Poetry: Read Less [-] Japanese Language 15

JAPAN C141 Introductory Readings in JAPAN 146 Japanese Historical Documents 4 Japanese Buddhist Texts 4 Units Units Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2018, Spring 2018 Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2012, Fall 2009 This course is an introduction to the study of medieval Buddhist literature Writings in the Japanese vernacular constitute only one part of the total written in Classical Japanese in its wabun (aka bungo) and premodern Japanese written corpus. Until the 20th century, the preferred forms (including kakikudashi). The class will read samples from a medium for most historical texts and male diaries was Sino-Japanese variety of genres, including material written in China that are read in (kanbun). Familiarity with the grammar of this extraordinarily rich tradition an idiosyncratic way in Japan. Reading materials will include Chinese is therefore essential for all students of premodern Japanese disciplines translations of Sanskrit and Central Asian Buddhist scriptures, scriptural Japanese Historical Documents: Read More [+] commentaries written in China and Korea, Japanese subcommentaries Rules & Requirements on influential Chinese and Korean commentaries, philosophical treatises, hagiography, apologetics, histories, doctrinal letters, preaching texts, and Prerequisites: Japanese 120 setsuwa literature. This course is intended for students who already have Hours & Format some facility in literary Japanese. Introductory Readings in Japanese Buddhist Texts: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Rules & Requirements Additional Details Prerequisites: Japanese 120. One semester of classical Japanese. Prior background in Buddhist history and thought is helpful, but not required Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate

Hours & Format Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Japanese Historical Documents: Read Less [-]

Additional Details JAPAN 155 Modern Japanese Literature 4

Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. This course is an introduction to Japanese modernism through the reading and discussion of representative short stories, poetry, and Instructor: Blum criticism of the Taisho and early Showa periods. We will examine the aesthetic bases of modernist writing and confront the challenge posed Also listed as: BUDDSTD C141 by their use of poetic language. The question of literary form and the Introductory Readings in Japanese Buddhist Texts: Read Less [-] relationship between poetry and prose in the works will receive special attention. JAPAN 144 Edo Literature 4 Units Modern Japanese Literature: Read More [+] Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 Rules & Requirements Critical reading and translation of important literary texts from the Edo Prerequisites: Japanese 100A (may be taken concurrently) period, including poetic diaries, merchant fiction, and (joruri) drama. Edo Literature: Read More [+] Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Prerequisites: Japanese 120 Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Additional Details Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Modern Japanese Literature: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Edo Literature: Read Less [-] 16 Japanese Language

JAPAN 159 Contemporary Japanese JAPAN 161 Introduction to Japanese Literature 4 Units Linguistics: Usage 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2019, Spring 2019 Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019 This course examines the historical production and reception of key This course deals with issues of the usage of the Japanese language and Japanese literary and film texts; how issues of gender, ethnicity, social how they have been treated in the field of linguistics. It concentrates on roles, and national identity specific to each text address changing pragmatics, modality/, , speech varieties (politeness, economic and social conditions in postwar Japan. gender, written vs. spoken), conversation management, and rhetorical Contemporary Japanese Literature: Read More [+] structure. Students are required to have intermediate knowledge of Rules & Requirements Japanese. No previous linguistics training is required. Introduction to Japanese Linguistics: Usage: Read More [+] Prerequisites: Japanese 100A (may be taken concurrently) Rules & Requirements

Hours & Format Prerequisites: Japan 10, Japan 10B, or Japan 10X

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format

Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Additional Details

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate

Contemporary Japanese Literature: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

JAPAN 160 Introduction to Japanese Instructor: Hasegawa Linguistics: Grammar 4 Units Introduction to Japanese Linguistics: Usage: Read Less [-] Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2019, Fall 2018 This course deals with issues of the structure of the Japanese language JAPAN 163 Translation: Theory and Practice and how they have been treated in the field of linguistics. It focuses on /, , writing systems, dialects, lexicon, 4 Units and syntax/semantics, historical changes, and genetic origins. Students Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018 are required to have intermediate knowledge of Japanese. No previous An overview of the concepts of theoretical, contrastive, and practical linguistics training is required. linguistics which form the basis for work in translation between Japanese Introduction to Japanese Linguistics: Grammar: Read More [+] and English through hands-on experience. Topics include translatability, Rules & Requirements various kinds of meaning, analysis of the text, process of translating, translation techniques, and theoretical background. Prerequisites: Japan 10, Japan 10B or Japan 10X Translation: Theory and Practice: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Hours & Format Prerequisites: Japanese 100, Japanese 100B, or Japanese 100X; or Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week equivalent

Additional Details Hours & Format

Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Additional Details

Instructor: Hasegawa Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate

Introduction to Japanese Linguistics: Grammar: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Hasegawa

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JAPAN 164 Reading Japanese Texts Using JAPAN 173 Modern Japanese Literature in Advanced Grammatical Analysis 4 Units Translation 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021 Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2015 This course is designed for those at high-intermediate to low-advanced This course surveys modern Japanese fiction and poetry in the first half level of fluency in Japanese to further develop their reading proficiency of the 20th century. Topics will vary. through detailed grammatical analyses of selected texts. Although Modern Japanese Literature in Translation: Read More [+] adequate knowledge of both vocabulary and grammar is essential for Rules & Requirements understanding the text, often in foreign-language learning, vocabulary typically receives more emphasis than grammar. Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Through assigned texts, students learn through a hands-on approach Hours & Format how are combined to form a phrase, how phrases are combined to form a clause, how clauses are combined to form a sentence, how Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week sentences are combined to form a text. Readings are selected from modern Japanese writing on current affairs, social sciences, history, and Additional Details literature. Reading Japanese Texts Using Advanced Grammatical Analysis: Read Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate More [+] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Rules & Requirements Modern Japanese Literature in Translation: Read Less [-] Prerequisites: J10B or equivalent

Hours & Format JAPAN C176 Archaeology and Japanese Identities 4 Units Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Terms offered: Fall 2007 Course explores stereotypical images of traditional Japanese culture Additional Details and people through archaeological analysis. Particular emphasis will be Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate placed on changing lifeways of past residents of the Japanese islands, including commoners, , and nobles. Consideration will be given to Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam. the implications of these archaeological studies for our understanding of Japanese identities. Instructor: Hasegawa Archaeology and Japanese Identities: Read More [+] Hours & Format Reading Japanese Texts Using Advanced Grammatical Analysis: Read Less [-] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

JAPAN 170 Classical Japanese Literature in Additional Details Translation 4 Units Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2014, Fall 2010 This course surveys Japanese poetry and/or prose written predominantly Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. in or before the (794-1185). Topics will vary. Classical Japanese Literature in Translation: Read More [+] Also listed as: ANTHRO C125B Rules & Requirements Archaeology and Japanese Identities: Read Less [-] Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

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Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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JAPAN 177 Urami: Rancor and Revenge in JAPAN 180 Ghosts and the Modern Literary Japanese Literature 4 Units Imagination 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Fall 2018 Terms offered: Fall 2013, Fall 2008, Spring 2008 Urami (rancor, resentment) has an enduring presence in Japanese The course examines the complex meanings of the ghost in modern literature. Figures overburdened with urami become demons, vengeful Japanese literature and culture. Tracing the representations of the ghosts, or other transformed, dangerous, scheming characters. They supernatural in drama, fiction, ethnography, and the visual arts, we appear in many different genre and eras. The course's topic enables explore how ghosts provide the basis for remarkable flights of imaginative discussion on concepts important for understanding Japanese literary speculation and literary experimentation. Topics include: storytelling works such as hyper-attentiveness to shifting social status, the role of and the loss of cultural identity, horror and its conversion into aesthetic groupness in targeting victims, the imperatives of shame, secrets, the pleasure, fantasy, and the transformation of the commonplace. We will circumscribed agency of women, and the reach of Buddhist teachings consider historical, visual, anthropological, and literary approaches to the into behavioral norms. For those interested in comparative literature, supernatural and raise cultural and philosophical questions crucial to an the course offers an opportunity to take a measure of what Japanese understanding of the figure and its role in the greater transformation of narratives offer as legitimate causes of rancor and revenge. modern Japan (18th century to the present). Urami: Rancor and Revenge in Japanese Literature: Read More [+] Ghosts and the Modern Literary Imagination: Read More [+] Hours & Format Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

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Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Wallace Ghosts and the Modern Literary Imagination: Read Less [-] Urami: Rancor and Revenge in Japanese Literature: Read Less [-] JAPAN 181 Reframing Disasters: Fukushima, JAPAN 178 Murakami Haruki and Miyazaki Before and After 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2016 Hayao: the Politics of Japanese Culture from The course considers the different literary, social and ethical formations the Bubble to the Present 4 Units that arise or are destroyed in disaster. It explores how Japanese Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2019, Spring 2018 literature and media, before and after 3:11, attempt to translate the un- This course will examine the works of the novelist Murakami Haruki representable, and in so doing, to create a new type of literacy about 1) and the animator Miyazaki Hayao within the context of contemporary trauma and the temporality of disaster, 2) precarity, community and the and history. Both Murakami and Miyazaki debuted public sphere and 3) sustainability and ecological scale. The course will in 1979 and their work has very much defined Japan’s cultural experience pay particular attention to a range of works that explicitly or obliquely from the tail end of the Era of High Growth Economics through the reframe iconic or popular representations of disasters in cinema, literature Bubble Era, the Lost Decade, and into the twenty-first century. Students and other media, taking into account of the readiness with which certain will explore the works of these two figures in the context of the history of cultural forms lend themselves to vistas of disaster. Japanese literature and film and its relation to larger political, social, and Reframing Disasters: Fukushima, Before and After: Read More [+] cultural trends of Japan from the 1980s to the present. Hours & Format Murakami Haruki and Miyazaki Hayao: the Politics of Japanese Culture from the Bubble to the Present: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 3 hours of Additional Details discussion per week Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 6 hours of discussion per week Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.

Additional Details Reframing Disasters: Fukushima, Before and After: Read Less [-]

Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.

Murakami Haruki and Miyazaki Hayao: the Politics of Japanese Culture from the Bubble to the Present: Read Less [-] Japanese Language 19

JAPAN 185 Introduction to Japanese Cinema JAPAN 189 Topics in Japanese Film 4 Units 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Summer 2018 Second 6 Week Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2015, Spring 2013 Session This course will offer a survey of Japanese cinema from its earliest days Selected topics in the study of Japanese film. to contemporary anime (animated film). Providing the basic tools for Topics in Japanese Film: Read More [+] analyzing film language, the course begins by analyzing the interactions Rules & Requirements between early Japanese film and early Hollywood. We then consider Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. the development of Japanese film, discussing style and structures of connotation, figurative meaning and political critique, the uses of the Hours & Format historical past and ideology, and the roles of youth culture and views of the family. We consider the place of important individual directors. We Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of lecture and 2-3 hours of also discuss current critical debates about broader trends in Japanese discussion per week film and culture, as they illuminate the construction and ruptures in notions of Japanese identity. Summer: 6 weeks - 8-8 hours of lecture and 4-6 hours of discussion per Introduction to Japanese Cinema: Read More [+] week Rules & Requirements Additional Details

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate

Hours & Format Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of Topics in Japanese Film: Read Less [-] discussion per week

Additional Details JAPAN H195A Honors Course 2 - 5 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate Directed independent study and preparation of senior honors thesis. Limited to senior honors candidates in East Asian Languages (for Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. description of Honors Program, see Index). Honors Course: Read More [+] Introduction to Japanese Cinema: Read Less [-] Rules & Requirements

JAPAN 188 Japanese Visual Culture: Prerequisites: Senior honors standing in East Asian Languages, 3.5 Introduction to Anime 4 Units GPA in major, 3.3 overall Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2019, Spring 2017 This course is an introduction to Japanese animation, or anime, from its Hours & Format earliest forms (in relationship to manga) to recent digital culture, art, and Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-5 hours of independent study per week games. We will analyze and study mainly animated feature films and read the critical work they inspired. We will address such issues as cultural Summer: 10 weeks - 3-7.5 hours of independent study per week memory and apocalyptic imagination, robots and the post-, cities, nature, and the transnational; gender, shojo, and the aesthetics of "cute," Additional Details as well as consider specific issues in the theoretical understanding of Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate anime within technology and media theory. Japanese Visual Culture: Introduction to Anime: Read More [+] Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required. Hours & Format Honors Course: Read Less [-] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week

Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 3.5 hours of discussion per week

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Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: O'Neill

Japanese Visual Culture: Introduction to Anime: Read Less [-] 20 Japanese Language

JAPAN H195B Honors Course 2 - 5 Units JAPAN 199 Independent Study 1 - 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2019, Fall 2015 Terms offered: Spring 2019, Fall 2015, Fall 2014 Directed independent study and preparation of senior honors thesis. Independent study in topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses. Limited to senior honors candidates in East Asian Languages (for Independent Study: Read More [+] description of Honors Program, see Index). Rules & Requirements Honors Course: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Prerequisites: Upper division standing

Prerequisites: Senior honors standing in East Asian Languages, 3.5 Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to major GPA, 3.3 overall Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.

Hours & Format Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-5 hours of independent study per week Hours & Format

Summer: 10 weeks - 3-7.5 hours of independent study per week Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week

Additional Details Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of independent study per week Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate 8 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of independent study per week

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. This is part two of a year long Additional Details series course. Upon completion, the final grade will be applied to both parts of the series. Final exam not required. Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate

Honors Course: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required. JAPAN 198 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Units Independent Study: Read Less [-] Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013 Small group instruction in topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses. Directed Group Study: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Upper division standing

Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of directed group study per week 8 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of directed group study per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Japanese/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.

Directed Group Study: Read Less [-]